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Jon Deitemyer

About Me

-PERFORMANCES WITH: Zach Brock, Sam Barsh, "The Coffee Achievers", Grazyna Auguscik, "Matt Ulery's Loom", Patricia Barber, Greg Osby, John McLean, Jeff Parker, "Ben Paterson Trio", Jangeun Bae, Lynn Seaton, Stefan Karlsson, "James Davis Quintet", Greg Duncan, Kelly Sill, Kelly Brand...
-PERFORMANCES IN: Toronto and Banff, Canada, South Korea, Poland, Germany, Brazil, and ALL up in the contiguous US
-GRADUATE OF: the University of North Texas
-RECORDINGS ON: Origin, OA2, Secret Fort Records, GMA Records, Ears and Eyes, and countless independent projects

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 30/11/2007
Band Website: www.jondeitemyer.com
Band Members: Jon. Deitemyer.
Influences: RANDOMIZED!!! Eric Harland, Oscar Peterson, The New Yorker, Kurt Vonnegut, Eunice Yi, Matt Ulery, Jeff Ballard, Roy Haynes, Mos Def, Roberta Flack, Noam Chomsky, Talib Kweli, any and all politically-minded people that are capable of articulating rational thought, Lynn Seaton, Ray Brown, Ed Soph, all the kids playing killing music in Chicago (even the older kids...), great food created and eaten with friends, Rob Clearfield's beard, Geoff Keezer, Karriem Riggins, Earl Harvin (look him up, punks...), Martin Amis, Ari Hoenig, BARSH (for his ridiculous sense of style/confidence), Zach Brock (for his unending stories and quenchless thirst for better bourbon...), Grazyna Auguscik (look her up, too...), Rogers Park Fruit Market, and Jordan Baskin.
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Sounds Like: Ponies. and rainbows. with a splash of lollipop.
Record Label: Origin, OA2, Secret Fort, GMA, Ears and Eyes...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

PASTORALIA - George Saunders

Pastoralia was a used book store purchase given to me as a gift that might only be described as incredible.  A short fiction collection of six works, Saunders writes with insane intelligence and ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:03:00 GMT

Book Recommendations

I've made the decision to utilize my blog space as a sort of open-faced sandwich of book recommendations/excerpts for friends and lovers.  (Who am I kidding... It's love-R.)  The point is, l...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:51:00 GMT